With the printing industry on the verge of a shift to mechanised typesetting, which relied on hot-lead-squirting machines of unparalleled complexity, the public developed an odd interest in seeing ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, typesetting languages were considerably more sophisticated than the word processors of the time. Today, many word processing programs provide most, if not all, of the ...

The short film, Farewell — ETAOIN SHRDLU, produced in 1978 covers the very last day the New York Times was set for printing in the old way, using hot metal typesetting. We’ve covered the ...

Manga translation and typesetting company Amimaru released a formal statement on Friday regarding pay rates for contractors, in response to accusations on social media that the company pays ...

It provides a thorough summary of all the additional features available in GNU groff, with more detail than presented here.) groff offers all the niceties of computerized typesetting, including ...

The so-called Two-Thirds Keyboard is inspired by the long-gone typesetting era. The build is based on the typecases used in the era when type was assembled by hand. Typesetters would grab ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

Much worse. As a typesetter I can’t even control any of this. There is no concept of typesetting a book for Kindle. It’s simply a text dump with some very basic formatting. Is this where we are?

I have seen the future of typesetting. It happens in your browser, it doesn’t need Flash, and it looks and feels just as nice as Adobe InDesign. It’s also free, at least for now. Lucidpress ...